Francis John Turner

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Francis John Turner (born April 10, 1904 in Auckland , New Zealand , † December 21, 1985 in Berkeley , California ) was a New Zealand geologist and petrologist . He was Professor of Geology at the University of California, Berkeley .

Early years

Francis John Turner was on 10 April 1904 as the son of Mr and Mrs Gertrude King Come Reid , daughter of a leading Methodist pastor in Auckland , and her husband Joseph Hurst Turner , a teacher of Latin at the Auckland Grammar School in Auckland born. Turner's father died in 1913, leaving the family with four sons in poverty. His mother attached great importance to education, so he attended the school where his father was a teacher from 1917 and received support through a scholarship . From 1921 on he attended Auckland University College , where he received several awards, including the Senior Solarship in Geology and the University's Sir Julius von Haast Prize . In 1925 he completed his studies with a Master of Science . While still a student, he worked for the New Zealand Geological Survey until 1926 .

University of Otago

In 1926 he moved to the Geology Department of the University of Otago in Dunedin as a lecturer , where he worked with Professor William Noel Benson . It was Benson , the Turner for occurring in New Zealand Metamorphic Rock interested and great influence on Turner's career in the early years had. From then on Turner became interested in the almost unexplored western part of the South Island of New Zealand. He traveled on foot, on horseback or by boat, collecting rocks, documenting them and working on his Doctor of Science , which he obtained in 1934. With the award of the Fellowship in 1938 Turner was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand .

On August 19, 1930, in Auckland , Turner married Esmé Rena Bentham , a teacher at Otago Girls' High School , from Dunedin , who had a daughter.

United States

In 1938 Turner was awarded the Sterling Fellowship from Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut . Acceptance enabled him to travel to the United States and work at the university for a year. After that year he went back to New Zealand and continued to work as a lecturer at the University of Otago in Dunedin . In 1945 Turner applied for the position of director of the New Zealand Geological Survey . After receiving a rejection, he accepted the University of California's offer in 1946 to work as an associate professor in the geology department. Two years later he was appointed full professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1971.

In 1948, Turner gained worldwide attention and recognition in the professional world with his publication Mineralogical and Structural Evolution of Metamorphic Rocks , was granted US citizenship in 1953, and was the chair of the Department of Geology at the university from 1954 to 1959 . Turner sat on a wide variety of university committees and earned great recognition, not only from his peers around the world, but also from the student body.

In 1971 Turner retired. He died after a lengthy illness on December 21, 1985 in Berkeley , leaving behind his wife and daughter Gillian , married as James McKercher .

Awards

Memberships

Works

  • Geological Society of America (Ed.): Mineralogical and Structural Evolution of Metamorphic Rocks . Boulder 1948 (English).
  • McGraw-Hill (Ed.): Metamorphic petrology; mineralogical and field aspects . 1968 (English).
  • McGraw-Hill (Ed.): Metamorphic Petrology: Mineralogical, Field, and Tectonic Aspects . 2nd Edition. 1980, ISBN 0-07-065501-4 (English).

Co-publications

  • FJ Turner, John Verhoogen : Igenous and Metamorphic Petrology . Editor: McGraw-Hill . 1951 (English, new edition with Ian SE Carmichael 1974).
  • FJ Turner, Charles M. Gilbert, Howel Williams : Petrography: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks in Thin Sections (Mode of Origin of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks and How Sedimentary Rocks Are Formed) . Ed .: WH Freeman and Co. . 1954 (English).
  • FJ Turner, Wilson G. Johnston : Overland, California to Mexico, Post 1783, and, Petroglyph Field Work . In: San Bernardino County Museum (Ed.): Quarterly San Bernardino Country Association . tape XXXI , no. 1 & 2 , January 1, 1983 (English).

literature

  • Iris Y. Borg, Lionel E. Weiss : Francis John Turner - a Biographical Memoir . In: National Academy of Science (Ed.): Biographical Memoirs . Volume 71 . National Academies Press , Washington DC 1997, ISBN 0-309-05738-8 , pp. 357-370 (English).
  • MR. Wenk : Presentation of the Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 1985 to Francis John Turner . In: Mineralogical Society of America (Ed.): American Mineralogist . Volume 71 . Chantilly, Virginia 1986, pp. 849-851 (English).
  • WS Fyfe : Memorial of Francis John Turner - April 10, 1904-December 21, 1985 . In: Mineralogical Society of America (Ed.): American Mineralogist . Volume 72 . Chantilly, Virginia 1987, pp. 649-650 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Iris Y. Borg, Lionel E. Weiss : Francis John Turner - a Biographical Memoir . In: National Academy of Science (Ed.): Biographical Memoirs . Volume 71 . National Academies Press , Washington DC 1997, pp.  358 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Turner, Francis John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand geologist and petrologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1985
Place of death Berkeley